Shotlist

telephone company film about history;
historical recreation (1877) of the use of one of the earliest telephones in an Eastern town.
1885 - Long Distance Begins -- Maps with blinking lights show how cities across the countries became hooked into the telephone network.
introduction of a variety of telephone equipment -- loaded coils, vacuum tubes used as amplifiers or repeaters;
many varieties of vacuum tubes shown;
1915 -- The continent spanned with first transcontinental call; historic telephone calls across the continent and overseas between U.S. and foreign presidents noted;
globes shown with tracings of various telephone networks indicated;
shots: domestic servant in maid's outfit; answers phone,

4:47:02- 5:03:07
Great shot of a repeater station where telephone vacuums are stored. There's a V-shaped wipe to telephone polls. The telephone polls are in the middle of the V, and we see the sides of the repeater station to the sides of it.

7:44:50- 7:51:30
Beautiful black and white graphics over an old globe. The globe spins, and white lightning-shaped lines come out of the U.S. and extend east. "1935" comes over the globe at the end of the clip. Early virtual landscape.




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